Former Conservative cabinet minister Penny Mordaunt has spoken about how shaken she was to learn she was the victim of "deliberately humiliating and violent" deepfake porn when serving as an MP.
Speaking to BBC Newsnight, the former leader of the House of Commons said that her face had been used in AI-generated deepfake porn, adding it happened to "a number of parliamentarians".
Deepfakes are images or videos that have been digitally altered using artificial intelligence (AI) to replace the face of one person with another.
Mordaunt was being interviewed on the programme about advanced age checks that websites with pornographic material must implement before Friday.
But speaking on the issue of deepfake porn, she said: "The people behind this... don't realise the consequences in the real world when they do something like that... It plays across into people taking actual real world actions against ourselves."
